Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Context
This verse from Ecclesiastes Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. Qohelet the Preacher opens with the declaration 'Vanity of vanities! All is vanity' and surveys the relentless cycles of nature — sun rising and setting, rivers running to the sea — as evidence that there is nothing new under the …
Other Translations
One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.
A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.
One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.
Cross References
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and …
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few …
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was …
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and …